Mr. Scorpio
Mr. Scorpio's JournalThe Oppression of White America
White people are oppressed.
Stop laughing. It’s true.
In recent years, a narrative has formed and spread among the masses that asserts that white people in America are being subjected to reverse racism, ridicule, public scorn and discrimination. Before attempting to examine (and ultimately dismantle) this preposterous hypothesis, we should acknowledge all the ways in which this premise has manifested itself in mainstream society:
In October 2017, a poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Harvard revealed that 55 percent of white Americans believe there is discrimination against white Americans. More Americans agree than disagree that “white people are under attack in this country,” according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. Numerous studies have shown that “racial resentment” was the overriding factor for people who voted for Donald Trump.
Anecdotally, there are cases like the recently approved White Civil Rights rally coming to Washington, D.C., sponsored by the same activist who organized Charlottesville, Va.’s Unite the Right march; the rise in claims of “reverse racism”; and the main refrain in the white national anthem: “Not all white people.”
Not to mention the white-tears-induced furor over people of color who blatantly discriminate against the Caucasian masses by using heinous racial slurs like “wypipo,” “colonizer” and—no, this is not a joke—the actual word “white”:
https://twitter.com/JoshDenny/status/997604506522140672
https://www.theroot.com/the-oppression-of-white-america-1827018691
I think shit wasn't so fucking maddening, the jokes would write themselves...
Should we tell him?
We should never lose sight of the fact that Trump is a coward and a bully...
Who appeals to other cowards and bullies by punching down on the defenseless and depicting strangers as an existential threat.
He wants us to forget that America is a nation of strangers who have come to our shores. He wants to make already fearful people think of children as a deadly menace.
We must always remember that bullies and cowards are defeated when everyone stands up to them and their cowardice is exposed.
Hey, Greg, sometimes a tree is just a gawd damned tree...
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/fox-news-greg-gutfeld-media-of-exploiting-plight-of-kids-separated-at-border-to-make-trump-look-evil/
Trump's Koncentration Kamps 4 Kids is just the latest in his attacks on people of color
It's his cynical way of using the Federal Government to weaponize identity politics.
He has attacked people of color non-stop since he became politically viable. A viability that is primarily based on his exploitation of white identity politics.
His white supporters can't even muster the barest amount of sympathy for asylum seekers and their children, simply because they're programmed to not think of these people as human beings.
To the Trump cultists, the asylum seekers represent an existential threat to their own whiteness and Trump is exploiting that belief, short of building ovens and shoveling those poor mothers and their children into them.
If he's allowed to continue, history teaches us that the lives of the asylum seekers and anyone who advocates for them are in jeopardy.
This needs to be stopped. He needs to be put in check. Because he's not going to just stop with asylum seekers and the undocumented, he's going to attack anyone he deems as an enemy. And his cultists will attack anyone they deem to exist outside of their own narrow frame of identity.
I've used the White Fragility Digest to highlight how big of a problem this is and I only scratched the surface with it.
America is at a crossroads. Instead of a "Shining Beacon on a Hill," where the wretched refuse of the world can find refuge here, we're losing what it means to be America. Americans are not only born, apart of every other nation on this planet, America has been the one place where Americans are made.
Anyone can be an American and Americans have come here from all corners of this Earth. Trump and his minions want to put an end to that, simply because they want to cynically exploit white identity politics for personal and political capital. No other Republican or Democrat president has tried to destroy that basic American premise, in spite of the fact that people like Reagan and the Bushes have used dogwhistle politics to scare poor whites into voting for them.
What Trump has done was much too much for those guys.
I'm appalled that our basic, non-partisan values can be attacked so casually and threatened with total elimination. This is not the America that any of us know.
We can't let this happen, because doing so represents an existential threat to all of us. If Trump is allowed to succeed, it only means that America is headed toward self-destruction.
Welcome to the Fall of The American Empire... Perhaps.
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